The Summer with Carmen (To kalokairi tis Karmen)

The setting: The rocky, sun-kissed shores of a gay nude beach perched above the Mediterranean Sea in Athens, Greece. Our heroes: Best friends and former actors-turned-aspiring filmmakers Demos and Nikitas. Their objective: Finally crack their feature screenplay, a steamy autofiction about the highs and lows of their flings, family drama, and dog-sitting escapades of two summers earlier.

In this delightfully meta comedy with a simple set-up, writer-director Zacharias Mavroeidis makes an instant splash in the waters of world cinema by deconstructing the rules of both storytelling and attraction, fittingly set in the heartland of countless ancient myths and epics. As the story toggles between Demos and Nikitas’ breathless brainstorm session and the film-within-a-film of their unspooling screenplay, its most resonant thread emerges: lovers may come and go, but queer friendship is forever.

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